Dear George,
I worked with the Shaw Heritage Museum in Washington, DC to develop their
volunteer and intership program, as well as some recruiting for the
Historical Society of Washington, DC.
As far as developing the "job descriptions", we focused our attention on the
needs of the organization and the person best suited for the "job". We also
incorporated the mission of the museum and the goals for the particular
projet and how a volunteer/intern would benefit from the experience. The
"job descriptions" we worked with were for oral historians, exhibit
designers, historians, and photographers.
To recruit, we used volunteermatch.org, which is web site for non profit
organizations. We also solicited area universities.
Hope this helps.
Danette T. Sokacich
Development Associate
American Association of Museums
1575 I Street NW
Suite 400
Washington, DC 2005
tel 202/218-7701
fax 202/289-6578
http://www.aam-us.org
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From: Burton, George A. [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 11:23 AM
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Subject: Volunteer and Internship Programs
We're a new organization, and I'm developing our first volunteer program and
internship program. Does anyone have information they can share or point me
to? I tried looking in the Museum-L archives but didn't find much except
for several useful messages on gifts for volunteers. I'd really appreciate
samples of guidelines, forms, and procedures, as well as recruiting and
retention techniques.
Here's some context: We're participating in a large meeting in June with an
opportunity to recruit our first volunteers. So our immediate task is to
prepare some kind of brochure to hand out and some kind of form for
potential volunteers to return to us.
Thank you!
George Burton, Human Resources Administrator
The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity
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